Terry McKenna - Agile (R)evolution - understanding the roots of Agile to shape the Future of Work: a conversation

schedule 4 weeks ago

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30 Mins

Interactive

Beginner

The adoption of "Agile" approaches to delivering outcomes has spread like wildfire from its perceived roots in software development's "Agile Manifesto" in 2001. But what we consider today to be "Agile" methods draw from a wide range of influences some of which seem to be the antithesis of the agile mindset.

This presentation will look at how these diverse roots have made "agile" what it is today, but, more importantly, will invite delegates to discuss how agile approaches might adapt to both shape and be shaped by, a rapidly changing world.

Considering influences such as the emergence of IoT, AI and virtual workspaces, delegates will be invited to express their viewpoints as to the future state of Agile. The intent is to provoke and promote dialogue, harnessing delegates' insights and perspectives.

schedule 2 weeks ago

90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

The Liberating microstructures (K. McCandless & H. Lipmanowicz) are a repertory of workshop formats that enable collective intelligence and enhance trust among the participants.

Inclusivity, collective intelligence, collaboration, innovation; these words resonate a lot in today's business world where compagny tries to keep up with a growing complexity. And that's why every change agent, leader or facilitator needs to know about Liberating structures.

This workshop will be an interactive overview of the liberating microstructures, making every participant aware of the diversity of Liberating formats available.After a quick introduction to the subject, the participants will investigate the framework to finish with the key principles behing the liberating structures.

David Alia - The Dome: A powerful experiment for change when change is hard

schedule 2 weeks ago

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45 Mins

Case Study

Intermediate

"In ""Under the Dome"", the novel by Stephen King, the inhabitants of Chester's Mill wake up to a strange barrier, which is similar to a dome, covering the whole city, completely isolating it from the surrounding world. The dome is impenetrable, only a small amount of air and water can pass through. Following this puzzling event, the community under the dome has to change, for the best or the worst.

Most successful transformations at scale have a lot in common with this novel, metaphorically speaking of course.Based on this story, we designed a brand new culture hacking experiment that proved to be successful in many environments.

Change automatically generates resistance from the team to change AND from the ecosystem around (the ""antibodies"").What if, in order to change the culture of a whole ecosystem, a team was isolated from the outside world, protected by an unbreakable and transparent dome?

This story can be used as a referential, as this is a metaphor helping communicate and relate to the challenges faced in situations of change. Using it as an alignment between fiction and reality, this story will open the discussion to easily relatable transformation and business agility topics."

schedule 2 weeks ago

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30 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

"Like for diets, if methods exist to lose weight significantly and sustainably, they require discipline and courage, which often lack in big organisations that worship silver-bullet cargo-cult frameworks and rituals.

I will use my own experience in dieting (+20kg in 4 years, -25kg in 6 months) and IT (+20 years of experience) to describe the parallel between the two, and how it is a powerful metaphor to understand why transformations tend to drag on and on in big corporate companies.

Participants will (re-)discover this evidence written in golden letters at gym clubs: ""no pain, no gain"", and how the diet metaphor suits particularly well for a digital/agile/culture transformation. Ramping up from individual motivation and discipline to tribal execution and ownership, find what are the key levers for managers to step up to become their company's Personal Trainers, with often the most underrated ingredient: courage"

Nick Hadjinicolaou - Organisational agility and its perceived benefits from Australian perspectives

schedule 2 days ago

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45 Mins

Case Study

Intermediate

Organisational agility helps businesses to sustain their competitive advantage and contributes to business success. It accelerates shared knowledge and learning processes that meet the pace of rapid environmental change. Despite the awareness of agile application, perceived benefits about significant characteristics of organisational agility have not been fully investigated. This research aims to explore and report relationships between 20 agile characteristics and 15 perceived benefits from the perspectives of Australian industry sectors. Descriptive and correlation statistics were employed to establish the background of 36 research respondents and to indicate relationships of the studied variables. Degrees of correlation were closely examined. The research results showed that only some benefits of organisational agility were perceived and linked to the essential characteristics of agility. The research also found different combinations of organisational agility that constructed individual perceived benefits.

Martin Kearns - Agile contracts - Starting on the right foot

schedule 2 days ago

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45 Mins

Talk

Advanced

We will explore how Agile can be used to embed a learning cycle that supports a project/engagement lifecycle.

We will then explore different techniques and models to assist in governing and maintaining control over an investment, without destroying the essence of self-organisation and transparency of the outcome.

Dan Levy - Creating a space for collaboration and innovation with Design Sprints

schedule 1 month ago

90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

The purpose of the session is to introduce the principles of Design Sprints. It will provide a method to bridge the gap between strategy and execution to solve big problems and test new ideas.

The session will showcase tools and techniques to demonstrate this as an effective way of working. We will be referencing our global partner the Design Sprint Academy's Design Sprint 3.0 which is the version that we use when coaching, facilitating and training organisations.

This workshop is suited for those that struggle with fostering collaboration due to silos, wanting to understand their audience, improve efficiency, reduce risk when investing in new products/services.

Saman Attarian / David Clifford - Can you be their servant? A Fun Way to Learn About Servant-Leadership

schedule 1 month ago

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90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

"... make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer and more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? " (Greenleaf 1991)

Join us for an interactive and fun session on servant-leadership, how agile coaches aspire to lead. We will share a few paradigms and principles, and we will then practice these in real-world scenarios to gain an understanding of the mindset required to be a great servant leader. Inspired by Lyssa Adkins's "Coaching Agile Teams", Carol Dweck “Mindset” and Game of Life board game, this session will challenge your mind and spirit!

Daniel Ploeg - TWiG (The WiP Game)

schedule 1 month ago

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90 Mins

Workshop

Intermediate

The WiP Game is a generic kanban simulation designed to re-enforce basic knowledge of Kanban. We'll see dealing with flow, blockers, WiP limits (of course) and different classes of service play out in this simulation. Also there's a focus on metrics, so for those who haven't used these before it would be useful to build the skill.

Pete Holliday - The Six Traits of Progressive Organisations

schedule 1 month ago

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30 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

The 6 Trends of Progressive Organisations

Less than 15% of the companies listed in the fortune 500 in 1955 still exist today!

Past success is no longer a guarantee of future success. Despite an environment of constant change driven by global connectively and rapidly evolving technology, some companies are thriving in today’s uncertain and complex environment. Why?

These companies operate with a completely different operating system to traditional organisations. They dare to be different by leveraging technology, capturing unique talent and embracing new ways of working that allow them to outpace the competition.

In this innovative and informative presentation, Pete will focus on the approaches that leading global organisations like Netflix, Buurtzorg, Amazon, Spotify, Google and Morning Star are deploying to remain relevant in a world of constant change.

Pete will share how you can deploy these six key principles to transform your workplace, resulting in greater collaboration, transparency, and high performance.

Glenn Smyth - Architecture for Agility - Noun and Verb

schedule 1 month ago

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30 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

Leveraging experience on numerous digital transformation programs, including the multi-award-winning ME Bank transformation, Glenn will describe the key features of an agile, or Digitally Transformed organisation from an architecture perspective. This will describe the target architectural state for a digitally transformed organisation by covering each of these features and the critical success factors for each feature. The presentation will be peppered with real-life examples and cover the critical supporting design paradigm for an agile organisation, truly enabling Minimal Viable product delivery, of exceptions based straight-through-processing (STP) in some detail. This is Architecture the noun. Glenn will also cover "Architecture the verb" - how do you do architecture in an Agile delivery based organisation.

And finally, and most important, they believe their potential is underused and they feel they cannot express all their creativity at work

If so, join me to understand the key factors to build high performance teams. I will also talk about the importance of leaders on that and how to create a trustworthy, open, and safe environment for great results.

This interactive talk will be based on academic studies, my own experience as Agile Coach, as well as benchmarking from the best companies to work on in the World.

Mark Winter - You and I both caused a $50 Billion dollar waste...here's what we can do about it

schedule 1 month ago

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90 Mins

Interactive

Advanced

Globally, organisations are wasting over $50 Billion a year on leadership development. We’re simply not lifting leadership capability overall; we stillrelyon‘hero’leadersand‘stars’inourteams,toreallygetstuffdone…and that’s not scalable.

Why? We don’t focus on the behaviours that really matter in a given context and we don’t measure return on investment, through applied results.

Make it matter with the “one change to rule them all” – updating your leadership and organisational development approaches to focus on Behavioural Insights.

Cultivating insights from behavioural economics and cognitive neuroscience, we develop your ability to understand and mitigate the limitations of your own brain - and all the other brains around you.

A Behavioural Insights focus will ensure you and your team learn faster. And make better decisions.

Organisations exist in an increasingly competitive, disrupted landscape. Yet the fundamental behaviours of human beings haven’t changed a lot over hundreds of thousands of years. We help organisations leverage this understanding, to innovate and win.

Elijah Eilert - Innovation Accounting

schedule 1 month ago

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90 Mins

Others

Intermediate

Traditional accounting and funding processes are no longer sufficient in dealing with today's fast changing environment. Innovation Accounting fundamentally ties learning and money together. It is a framework designed to generate and capture information about new ways to create, deliver and capture value in the most cost-effective and quickest way. It holds entrepreneurs and managers accountable against relevant metrics.

Statistics is the ‘science’ of extracting the most information from the least data. Innovation Accounting puts these principals at the heart of innovation management. Innovation Accounting uses the right information at the right time to make better decisions about product, investment/resource allocation, people and strategy.

This session will touch on some of the core challenges of innovation management and provides a high-level introduction to the subject of innovation accounting.

Michael Fagan - Using Cost of Delay to de-scale your organisation through decentralised decision making

schedule 1 month ago

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30 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

It isn’t enough to break down our portfolio into small pieces and execute them in isolation from one another. We must acknowledge that variance in knowledge work is a fact of life, specialists are scarce, people find new jobs, life happens. Rather than think of an organisation as individual parts to be managed, think of it as a living organism which adapts and responds as a whole.

By empowering people to take decisions based on objective data linked to a shared vision people are not simply playing a game according to a set of rules, they are responsible for the game.

Don Reinertsen in his seminal book "The Principles of Product Development Flow" states:

"If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay. "

In this talk I will present how the Cost of Delay can be derived from data your organisation has lying around how you can super charge decision making speed and consequently the flow of value.

Andrew Murphy - How to communicate anything to anyone and see a real impact - communicating effectively and efficiently

schedule 1 month ago

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90 Mins

Workshop

Beginner

Everyone thinks they are a good at communication, but... how many times have you been at an event talking to someone you really didn’t want to talk to? Been sold to by someone who didn’t get that you weren’t interested?

These are examples of bad communication and they all have a few things in common, they weren’t efficientand they weren’t effective

.They didn’t go into the communication with the right mindsetand the right preparation

Also, sorry to say it, but your own communications probably suck too. But after this talk you’ll have a leg up on your competition: you’ll know your communication sucks... and you know how to fix it.

Renae Craven - 10 Ways to End Up in the Agile Transformation Doghouse

schedule 1 month ago

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30 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

Agile transformations are not easy. And if you’ve ever been involved in one, or two (or more!) you’ve hopefully figured out that they’re not all the same.

In my experience, there are some common patterns that are a hindrance to agile transformations. This topic will explore 10 of these patterns which either impede organisations or delay their move to an agile organisation.